"Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me."

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Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage

Lorraine Hansberry

#Future Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.”

Source : "Female Heads of State" by Lynn Harris, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
“The difference is that was then, this is now.”

Source : Title of book (1971)
“If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!”
“The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence”
“I am closest of all to happinessâ€”although I wonâ€™t attempt to define just what it isâ€”when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to â€˜comprehend,â€™ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself â€˜Iâ€™.”
“I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.”
“Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.”
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”

Source : "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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